Fun and Interesting ads are actually the worst ones, because they get you to associate pleasant feelings with their product/service/brand, which dilutes your ability to make rational, objective choices about them. That’s one of the ways that they are manipulating you.
Forums can and do go down or get deleted, there’s nothing inherent to it that makes it stay any longer then discord messages.
You’re comparing apples to vegetables here. Sure, forums can go down, but not all of them do. Take Reddit, it’s been around a long time and many people use it for troubleshooting. As for discoverability, a lot of the time when I do a web search for a problem, it points to one or more discussions on Reddit. And that’s just one example.
I just signed up yesterday, and yeah, it took almost a day to get my verification, but it worked. And the rest seems to work fine.
I just signed up yesterday, and yeah, it took almost a day to get my verification, but it worked. I haven’t seen any extremism yet, but I’m still new. I’ll look into the development thing.
It’s not easier, just faster, and that’s only if someone who can answer your question happens to be on at the same time you are. Asynchronous communication does not require that, and has the added bonus of keeping the solution easily available for others to find by themselves rather than taking up someone’s time. So it is far more efficient. If you can’t find the answer to your problem after trying and genuinely need a solution right away, that is what live support is for.
And I think that a big part of why so many have moved their support to discord is the long standing (and annoying) habit of people trying to use only one tool for everything. Sure, you can use a hammer on a screw, but it’s not a good idea.
I signed up yesterday and just got my verification a little while ago. I hear that they’re being swamped right now. I wonder why? 🤔
First they came for…
It’s not dead, it’s just pining for the fjords.
The battery in mine exploded! By which I mean I found it one day with a big outward bulge in the back. Years after I stopped using it, but still I can’t use it for this now. 😭
I was not upset, I was just trying to clarify my position, and get clarity on yours. Normal discussion stuff. I understand if you don’t have the energy/interest to continue though, since I still don’t understand your position nor do you understand mine.
Ultimately yes, but I know that this isn’t always possible. I’ve left reddit completely for here (and yes, there is a lot of fun content that I really miss), but occasionally if I am looking for information and my search turns up little except for a link to reddit, then I’ll go look. You have to judge for yourself how much you can “invest”, just don’t do it because it’s less fun or whatever. And while reading is less of a problem than contributing, the more of that you do there, the less of it you are likely doing here, which diminishes the investment in this platform.
Think of it like an investment. Right now a person goes to reddit/fb/twitter/etc. because they get a quick payoff. By switching to fedi, you get less of a payoff now, but by helping to build it you get an even bigger payoff later. Anything worth doing involves some kind of “payment” or sacrifice this way. And like other investments, the more you put into it now (with content and getting others to switch), the sooner and bigger will be your payoff.
But as a bonus, there are immediate benefits to using fedi, so you get to enjoy those right away while you wait.
Well, automation under our current system, yes.
“Categorize experience”? That kinda sounds like that generalization I was talking about, which is not what this is here. It’s a simple matter of “people in this group have a higher likelihood of exhibiting this behavior than people of other groups”. Simple observation. It’s not saying that only people in this group exhibit it, or even that all people in this group exhibit it. Just that more do. It’s not even necessarily claiming direct causation. Maybe people in that group have experiences that make them more likely to exhibit that behavior, so that would make it environmental. But the cause is another discussion.
As for “look for problems at an individual rather than systemic level”, I’m afraid that I don’t know what you mean here. I wasn’t talking about any problems. Are you referring to the injustices themselves maybe? Because that’s a whole other discussion too. I’m talking about psychology, not politics or economics. (And while it’s not relevant, yes, I am acting on it, and far more systemically than most people.)
I wasn’t trying to dismiss anything. Just pointing out that it’s a commonly observed trait in ADHD people. It’s a scientific perspective to notice that people with certain neurologies tend to exhibit certain behaviors more often than people with other neurologies. It’s not stigmatizing unless you are both generalizing and value judging.
That’s me too, an effect of Justice Sensitivity, a common trait among both ADHD and autistic people. Before I knew that I was both, I used to tell people that I was allergic to advertising, to convey my feelings about it.
Sure I may have used Windows in the past, but now I wash my hands of it.
Looks good, but missing Friendica.
Ditto!